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Cells are not (hewn diftind:ly, in the tranfverfe SeQion 
of the Fruit. 3. That the Seed is not reprefented at 
all. 
This Genus ^ or Family, comprehends twenty or 
twenty-five Species, known to the Indians^ the Dif- 
ferences of which are ufually taken from their Fruits. 
This Plant does not perifh before it has ripened its 
Fruit, whence it might laft longer in a temperate Cli- 
mate, cool enough to retard its Fruit. 
The Bark of the Fruit is formed of the Tube of the 
Flower ; and the Lobes dry away during the growth 
of the Fruit. , 
ffhe Fruit of the Mufa reprefented entire ^ 
7 "ah, II. Fig. 4. 
I. The fame half ftripped of its Bark. 
a. Cut through the Middle. 
3, Cut tranfverfly, diftinguilhing the three Cells 
and the Seeds. 
4. Another Species of Mufa cut tranfverfly, re- 
prefented in the Hortus Malaharicus^ but ha- 
ving the Cells better diftinguifhed here. The fix 
black Points are the Seed. 
Hirudinella Marina^ or Sea^-Leach. 
Having obferved on the Sea a little Infedl fhaped 
like a fmall Worm^ which I found in the Stomach of 
a Bonite., where it was ftrongly faftened, I was defi- 
rous to examine it with regard to three Things, which 
excited my Admiration, i. Its Shape. 2. The Place 
